S.:a Novel About The Balkans

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"S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . The writing is taut, precise, and masterful." —The Philadelphia Enquirer

Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child—one without a country, a name, a father, or a language. Its birth only reminds her of an even more grueling experience: being repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in the "women's room" of a prison camp. Through a series of flashbacks, S. relives the unspeakable crimes she has endured, and in telling her story—timely, strangely compelling, and ultimately about survival—depicts the darkest side of human nature during wartime.

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Slavenka Drakulić (1949) is a noted Croatian writer and publicist, whose books have been translated into many languages.In her fiction Drakulić has touched on a variety of topics, such as dealing with illness and fear of death inHolograms of fear; the destructive power of sexual desire inMarble skin; an unconventional relationship inThe taste of a man; cruelty of war and rape victims inS. A Novel About the Balkans(made into a feature film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson); a fictionalized life of Frida Kahlo inFrida's bed. In her novel Optužena (English translation forthcoming), Drakulić writes about the not often addressed topic of child abuse by her own mother. In her novelDora i MinotaurDrakulic writes about Dora Maar and her turbulent relationship to Pablo Picasso, and how it affected Dora's intellectual identity. In her last novelMileva Einstein, teorija tugeshe writes about Einstein's wife Mileva Maric. The novel is written from Mileva's point of view, especially describing how motherhood and financial and emotional dependence on Einstein took her away from science and professional life.Drakulić has also published eight non-fiction books. Her main interests in non-fiction include the political and ideological situation in post-communist countries, war crimes, nationalism, feminist issues, illness, and the female body. InHow We Survived Communism;Balkan Express;Café Europashe deals with everyday life in communist and post-communist countries. In 2021, Drakulic wrote a sequel to Café Europa,Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism. Drakulic wrote the history of communism through the perspective of animals inA Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism. She explores evil in ordinary people and choices they make inThey Would Never Hurt a Fly War Criminals On Trial In The Hague, about the people who committed crimes during the Croatian Homeland war. On the other side, in Flesh of her flesh (available in English only as an e-book) Drakulić writes about the ultimate good – people who decide to donate their own kidney to a person they have never met. Her first book, Deadly sins of feminism (1984) is available in Croatian only:Smrtni grijesi feminizma.Drakulić is a contributing editor in The Nation (USA) and a freelance author whose essays have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review Of Books. She contributes to Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Internazionale (Italy), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), The Guardian (UK), Eurozine and other newspapers and magazines.Slavenka Drakulić is the recipient of the 2004 Leipzig Book-fair ”Award for European Understanding.” At the Gathering of International Writers in Prague in 2010 she was proclaimed as one of the most influential European writers of our time.

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